The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has said that the performance contract agreements signed recently with the Permanent Secretary and Heads of Departments, Agencies and Parastatals under the ministry would bring about accountability, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in public delivery.

The launching of the revised national policy on science, technology and innovation last week received a boost, with a call by IT stakeholders on government to marshal out an action plan with implementable and measurable benchmarks.

DUBAI, UAE — The nation’s ICT sector is set for a big boost as the Federal Government has pledged that the investment profile of the sector will be given fresh fillip so that it can be expanded for job creation.

Airtel Nigeria has urged Nigerian youths to build on the synergies derivable from friendship and networking to achieve success in various facets of life.

Seen a bicycle that has no chain? That is a new born baby out of auto industry technology. Tagged, Mando Footloose, the e-bike is the world’s first chainless hybrid technology. Like other pedal-assisted electric bikes, the bike combines manual and electric power. It eliminates the chain and transforms the cyclist’s motion directly into electricity.

It seems that a lot of people like using portable computers in bed. iPad users also do that and have between the Manatee and the tablift, to do that. But laptop users can go with the Lounge-Tek or the Omax types of stands.

Children today are growing up on mobile devices. Concepts like pinch-to-zoom and slide to unlock which were foreign to adults before the iPhone launched in 2007 are as natural as breathing, to today’s kids.

One of the major reasons for introducing the cashless initiative by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was to change the way financial transactions are conducted.

Again, stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT sector have raised fresh alarm over the activities of foreign ICT vendors saying that unless at least 60% of such services were domesticated locally, Nigeria will ever remain digitally colonized by foreigners especially India whose software controls the market.

In its effort to bridge the existing information gap between business owners and their target markets across the country, Nigeria’s local search engine and Information service provider, VConnect Global Service Limited, has hosted a forum on online marketing in Abuja.